A swarm of earthquakes is causing damage in northwest Oklahoma.Residents say the damage accumulated from five quakes, including the 4.8 magnitude earthquake on Friday that residents felt as far south as Oklahoma City.Wichita station KAKE said a church in Harper County was hit especially hard.A bricklayer was already scheduled to do some facia repairs to a Harper church’s bell tower, but the series of earthquakes left the church with more damage.The bricklayer took photos before starting the facia work on the bell tower. Those photos showed no earthquake damage, but several cracks became visible after the swarm of quakes over the weekend.“We had to have the insurance adjustor come out and look at it and agree that it was, in fact, earthquake damage,” church administrator Bodie Tedder told KAKE.The earthquakes added $1,200 in damage costs, according to the church. Parish Priest, Fr. Michael Peltzer, wonders how long repairs will hold with the current earthquake swarm.“There again is the uncertainty whether this could all be undone in the next earthquake,” Peltzer said.Church officials said new cracks have appeared elsewhere in the church, as well. Cracks appeared in the bricks of a fireplace. Those cracks go all the way to the fireplace’s iron door.The church is also opting out of having constantly lit candles because of the earthquakes.

HARPER COUNTY, Okla. —

A swarm of earthquakes is causing damage in northwest Oklahoma.

Residents say the damage accumulated from five quakes, including the 4.8 magnitude earthquake on Friday that residents felt as far south as Oklahoma City.